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'Vigilante' is filled with colorful characters
Author and TV series creator Stephen J. Cannell's last novel sends Shane Scully, a Los Angeles police detective, and his natty partner, Sumner Hitchens, out with a nice mystery that should please fans of the 19-book series.
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Learning more about founding fathers
Washington's Birthday, more than just a day off to pursue great retail sales, was created to celebrate the father of our country, George Washington.
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Dick Henry returns in 'Shortcut Man' sequel
At the start of p.g. sturges' follow-up to last year's "Shortcut Man," Dick Henry — the guy people call to fix things when legal recourse is either exhausted or out of the question — is putting the screws to a scam artist. It's merely an opening scene with little bearing on the primary story, but the extortionist periodically reappears as a running joke in this highly entertaining, if gruesome, sequel, "Tribulations of the Shortcut Man."
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Author keeps the thrills coming in 'Immortalists'
Author Kyle Mills examines the greed associated with powerful people demanding to live forever in his new novel "The Immortalists."
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New York Times Bestsellers List
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25 'World Changers' discuss companies in new book
Some businesses become so embedded in our lives it's hard to imagine a day without them.
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Detective Roy Grace returns in 'Dead Man's Grip'
A tragic car accident on the streets of London reveals a conspiracy in Peter James' "Dead Man's Grip."
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World-changing disaster occurs in 'Supervolcano'
The master of the alternate history novel delivers a terrifying future of the United States that seems within the realm of possibility in "Supervolcano: Eruption."
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'Micro' is thriller about science gone wrong
"Micro" is a new, posthumous story from Michael Crichton, who died in 2008, and finished by Richard Preston, author of "The Hot Zone."
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Fans of crime fiction will enjoy 'The Drop'
Harry Bosch tackles two tough cases in "The Drop," another stellar effort from author Michael Connelly.
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Story, reader are perfectly pitched
Every once in awhile an audiobook comes along that is so perfect that reading it as a book alone seems woefully inadequate.
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Reporter turns to the business of novels
Novelist Rose Senehi's career path seems to have come full circle: from business reporting to opening mall sites to writing novels, and she says the environmental themes in her novels are no coincidence.
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Review: Michael Jackson book thankfully focuses on the music
We get it already: Michael Jackson was kind of a weird dude.
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DeLillo details disconnection in new collection
Many of the tales in Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories are about missed connections or, more accurately, disconnections.
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Twin City brings 'Mitford' novels to life
Every reader of Jan Karon's popular Mitford series of novels most likely has a mental vision of that idyllic North Carolina town.
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Review: Sue Grafton has another choice letter
"V Is for Vengeance," and it's also for very, very good.
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Novelist Ann Beattie imagines life of Pat Nixon
One of the most poignant parts of Ann Beattie's new work, "Mrs. Nixon," is a page at the beginning listing the nicknames of Thelma Catherine Ryan, who was born March 16, 1912. She wanted to be an actress, but her most enduring role was being married to the only U.S. president to resign from office.
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'Lunatics' fun, but lacks Dave Barry's typical wit
In his popular books and newspaper columns, Dave Barry displays such a zany wit that on the rare occasions he's being serious he has to specify, "I am not making this up."
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'The Limit' revisits a great auto racing rivalry
A testosterone-fueled nonfiction book about auto racing in its bloody golden age, "The Limit" provides the drama and nostalgia of "Seabiscuit" and the body count of "Gladiator."
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Books do justice to subjects of civil rights, racism
Each year a federal holiday in January marks the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the slain civil rights leader.
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Review: Book examines why we fall prey to possession obsession
The sixth pair of black shoes. The kitchen device that peels a grape. The diet-breaking bag of chips on sale at the grocery store. We're all guilty of making purchases that we don't need.
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